Chinese symbol for “broken”
破
pò
broken; damaged; worn out; lousy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for broken is 破 (pò), defined as: broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “broken”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 残破 (殘破) | cán pò | broken; dilapidated |
| 坏 (壞) | huài | bad; spoiled |
| 碎 | suì | (transitive or intransitive) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble; broken; fragmentary; scattered |
| 碎掉 | suì diào | to drop and smash; broken |
| 坏鸟 (壞鳥) | huài niǎo | sinister person; unsavory character |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 破.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破坏 (破壞) | pò huài | destruction; damage |
| 突破 | tū pò | to break through; to make a breakthrough |
| 打破 | dǎ pò | to break; to smash |
| 破产 (破產) | pò chǎn | to go bankrupt; to become impoverished |
| 破解 | pò jiě | to break (a bond, constraint etc); to explain |
| 破裂 | pò liè | to burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down |
See also: Japanese symbol for “broken”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.